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...well to recognize. Several hundred urchins of these neighborhoods spend their free time in conducting a sort of guerilla warfare against the University at large, and if their looting parties, their brick-throwing escapades and merry bonfires persist, some accident is likely to occur that will make Harvard authorities repent of their indifference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAD END | 11/13/1937 | See Source »

...street corner Faker would, REPENT! For the time will soon be here when "Hell" that is REAL will be awaiting YOU on this EARTH. And there is no maybe. Thankyou...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Says Capitalists Dumb As Athletes, Seas System's End | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

...made before the Southern Society of New York by Virginia's Senator Carter Glass: "Jube Early was an unreconstructed rebel to the day of his death. He used to come frequently into my newspaper office and one day he said to me: 'Carter, I had hoped to repent my past sins in the hope that when I died I would go to heaven and see Robert E. Lee. But I have changed my mind. I want to go to hell to see the devil burn those Yankee uniforms off Joe Wheeler and Fitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...Deal was over by enlarging as follows on an anecdote of a famed Confederate general: "Jube Early was an unreconstructed rebel to the day of his death. He used to come frequently into my newspaper office and one day he said to me: 'Carter, I had hoped to repent my past sins in the hope that when I died I would go to heaven and see Robert E. Lee. But I have changed my mind. I want to go to hell to see the devil burn those Yankee uniforms off Joe Wheeler and Fitz Lee.*- I had thought," continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rebel Wish | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Announcement of the prize award was made last week while Dr. Ironside's work was on the presses. By the terms of the contest it was a "scholarly, up-to-date, popular treatise" written from a conservative standpoint, Mrs. Shepard being a stout Fundamentalist. Called Except Ye Repent, Dr. Ironside's broadside against sin and irreligion states its thesis thus : "To repent is to change one's attitude toward self, toward sin, toward God, toward Christ." Reason why Harry Ironside forgot the American Tract Society's prize contest was that last summer he spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ironside Broadside | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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